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djbobeb 07-20-2010 20:25

TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
Hi all

Does anybody know whether there is a mod or it is possible to make a mod for TF2 which will allow an in-game player to select from a selection of custom player class skins in game from an option menu?

Say for instance a scout to be able to select a Warriors Baseball Furies skin from an ingame selection menu?

I have a mod for hats (equipment manager) enabled on my test server that allows custom hats to be selected for each class, but a player skin selection too would be awesome.

Also if the mod could do the same as the hat (equipment manager) mod where you can allow only admins with a set flag to use it, this would be even better.

Any ideas? :)

noodleboy347 07-21-2010 19:09

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
It's impossible to change character skins as they are handled client-side.

djbobeb 07-21-2010 19:18

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
Thanks for the reply noodleboy,

I have never used character skins before but I realised my error when I loaded some to my PC and everyone in those classes appeared in those skins

djbobeb 07-21-2010 19:20

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
I noticed another script on a site which was called 'skin chooser' on the eventscripts website and that is where my initaial idea came from you see :)

noodleboy347 07-23-2010 04:21

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by djbobeb (Post 1247270)
I noticed another script on a site which was called 'skin chooser' on the eventscripts website and that is where my initaial idea came from you see :)

Yah it would be great to have custom playerskins for TF2. I think you can do it in Counter-Strike and stuff tho

djbobeb 07-24-2010 05:19

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
Yeah, shame it can't be implemented in TF2 as well, is there any reason why this is not available or can't be developed the same way, do the 2 games differ in the way the player class skins work even though both are local files?

Afronanny 07-24-2010 10:43

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by djbobeb (Post 1249898)
Yeah, shame it can't be implemented in TF2 as well, is there any reason why this is not available or can't be developed the same way, do the 2 games differ in the way the player class skins work even though both are local files?

Client-side skin handling means one less thing the server has to do, boosting server performance.

djbobeb 07-24-2010 10:57

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
Hi Afronanny. Thanks for the information. Always good to offload the work to a client as most PCs are powerful nowadays for gamers.

I was just wondering though how the skin facility can be achieved as per the 'skin chooser' scripting addon for counterstrike source, but not for TF2

Afronanny 07-24-2010 15:02

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by djbobeb (Post 1250090)
Hi Afronanny. Thanks for the information. Always good to offload the work to a client as most PCs are powerful nowadays for gamers.

I was just wondering though how the skin facility can be achieved as per the 'skin chooser' scripting addon for counterstrike source, but not for TF2

CS:S handles skins server-side. TF2 does not.

djbobeb 07-24-2010 15:07

Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
 
Thanks Afronanny, that explains it :)


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